In a message dated: 04 Jun 2002 11:15:45 EDT "Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
>On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 09:52, Michael O'Donnell wrote: >> >> Wouldn't pretty much any of the available NNTP servers >> satisfy those requirements? And FYI some of the >> specified features (and misfeatures) are normally >> managed by the client rather than the server. > >The intent of the two is pretty much the same: some sort of discussion >forum. However, the method of delivering is different. Message boards >are usually web-based, have a lot of useless features, and everything is >stored on the server side. NNTP is like e-mail. It works, get's the job >done, and the bells and whistles are dependant on the client. I don't entirely agree with all of that. NNTP stores everything on the server, and therefore you can archive it all there. Most clients connect to the server, but don't necessarilly download everything. I'm currently using GNUS for my news client, and connecting to 2 different servers, one *happens* to be my local system, but that's because my system *is* the NNTP server (leafnode). The other server is some remote corporate server in Belgium, and there isn't one news message that I have located on my system from that server. I connect to the server, suck down headers of the groups I'm interested in, and read the messages off of that server. The only thing I maintain locally is a news file which lists which articles in which groups I've already marked as read so I don't need to grab those again. Really, the big difference between NNTP and message boards is that NNTP is for those who understand that ascii text is the best way to communicate and message boards are for those who think eye-candy matters :) -- Seeya, Paul ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
